Here’s the last post on the Village Museum visit on Dragobete, the Romanian Valentine’s Day. The celebrations ended with a beautiful traditional songs and dances concert held by artists from different regions of the country. Two of them were from Oltenia, where I grew up, which brought back nice memories. Notice the traditional costumes once again, carefully handmade (usually), each of them with regional particularities that I am, unfortunately, not able to discern and/or explain. Enjoy!

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This concludes the Village Museum on Dragobete photography set. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, it was an extremely fun day and I’m looking forward to going back to the Museum for their next organized activities (cooking and photography)!

This was a nice thing to do, even though I didn’t quite get the link between this and Dragobete. We had a WWI troop walking around the village, posing for visitors and singing songs, songs that they apparently learnt from their grandparents. Every detail seemed spot on, even though I admit I’m no master of WWI uniforms and accessories. Still, nicely played.

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The last part of the Museum’s set will be a second traditional performance by a few different musicians. Bye for now 🙂

While walking around the village, we noticed everyone was gathering around a particular house. In front of this house, we saw our first Dragobete “attraction”. Teenagers, wearing traditional clothes, singing and dancing a traditional song, saying goodbye to a harsh winter, welcoming a beautiful spring, and most of all, celebrating love. With flowers in their hair and hands, they celebrated Dragobete in front of a delighted crowd.

The Village Museum in Bucharest is a very nice and quiet place. Some of you have probably seen this post from a year ago. Well, this time, I’ve been invited by a friend and former photography classmate of mine, Alina. I love this museum. Maybe because I grew up in and around houses that looked like some from this place, maybe because most of the objects displayed there are still “available” at my grandparents’ place. On thing is for sure, I always come back there with great pleasure.

So I will start this set with a post on the museum cats. Everyone here knows those cats. They have somewhere between twenty and thirty of them playing/sleeping around, you’re always welcomed by at least a few of them. So it seems logical to me to start off with kitties!

The museum cats are all over the place. Most of the time friendly, sometime not quite. They have some dog competition but nothing too significant.

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Which brings us to this little guy. He’s the most famous cat in town. The “Brown One”, they all have names but everyone calls him “the Brown One” or even “the Cat”. He’s not too friendly but can still play around when you’re interesting enough for him.

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N.B.: My lovie’s little piggy, the one holding the stick dangerously close to this tiger, got clawed – and it bled nicely for around ten minutes.

Next up, a peek at some Dragobete traditional songs and dances. You won’t have the sound but the image isn’t too shabby 🙂